Africa, Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 2012 and 2013
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ecords for statistical purposes.<br />
57. Potential country actions:<br />
a. Establish a representative <strong>and</strong> functioning multi-sectoral committee responsible<br />
for CRVS coordination;<br />
b. Hold regular <strong>and</strong> productive meetings of the national CRVS coordination<br />
committee;<br />
c. Assign to the national CRVS coordination committee, oversight of the<br />
implementation of the multi-sectoral national action plan; <strong>and</strong><br />
d. Issue regular updates on improvement progress.<br />
58. Regional support activities:<br />
a. Promote the establishment of a national coordination structure or mechanism comprised of<br />
key institutions <strong>and</strong> stakeholders of the civil registration <strong>and</strong> vital statistics system;<br />
b. Provide technical advisory services to support country efforts in strengthening coordination;<br />
c. Through the regional platform, identify, review <strong>and</strong> compile good practices in the coordination<br />
of civil registration <strong>and</strong> vital statistics functions, <strong>and</strong> facilitate the exchange of good practices in<br />
coordination mechanisms, documentation <strong>and</strong> online/offline dissemination;<br />
d. Through meetings of the Regional Steering <strong>and</strong> Coordination Group <strong>and</strong> interim support from<br />
the Regional Support Office, coordinate <strong>and</strong> cooperate on on-going <strong>and</strong> planned activities<br />
among relevant development partners involved in the Regional Strategic Plan; <strong>and</strong><br />
e. Through periodic reports from the Regional Support Office, ensure that countries are informed<br />
of <strong>and</strong> actively contribute to the coordination of capacity-building activities.<br />
OUTCOME H: USE OF VITAL STATISTICS<br />
Increased technical capacity of countries in the region to effectively use vital<br />
statistics<br />
59. High quality, st<strong>and</strong>ards-based registration of vital events enables the production of reliable <strong>and</strong><br />
complete vital statistics, which support national <strong>and</strong> local decision-making across a range of social <strong>and</strong><br />
economic sectors to facilitate evidence-based policy. 29 The contribution of vital statistics to evidence-based<br />
decision-making is dependent upon is timely dissemination <strong>and</strong> appropriate uptake by the relevant decisionmakers.<br />
60. Potential country actions:<br />
a. Include vital statistics derived from civil registration systems in national<br />
statistical, health <strong>and</strong> development plans for planning <strong>and</strong> monitoring purposes;<br />
b. Make available in the public domain, within one year of the end of the reporting<br />
year, the reports of numbers <strong>and</strong> distribution of total births <strong>and</strong> deaths by age<br />
<strong>and</strong> sex;<br />
29 The United Nations Principles <strong>and</strong> Recommendations for Vital Statistics states that the compilation of vital statistics should have as its<br />
ultimate minimum goal: (a) the provision of total monthly or quarterly summary counts of live births, deaths, foetal deaths,<br />
marriages <strong>and</strong> divorces on a time schedule prompt enough to provide information for decision-making in health <strong>and</strong><br />
population programmes; <strong>and</strong> (b) the production of detailed annual tabulations of each type of vital event cross-classified by its<br />
demographic <strong>and</strong> socio-economic characteristics. Source: UNSD, 2001, Principles <strong>and</strong> Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System , Revision 2 , para. 62, U N<br />
publication, Sales No. 01.XVI.10, available at .<br />
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